ugustus, that Cinna was
pardoned. "Do" said she to Augustus, "what physicians are accustomed
to do, who, when the remedies they have employed do not succeed, try
others which are entirely different. You have done no good by
severity--Try now the effect of clemency. Forgive Lucius Cinna. Now
that he has been discovered, he cannot injure you, but he can
advance your reputation"--Seneca de Clem. lib. i.--_Ed._]
253 [Language of this description was in common use with the Antinomians
of the time, as may be seen in Edwards' Gangraena (Part First, p. 22,
Lond. 1646). Gataker's Antinomiania Discovered and Confuted, (pp.
18, 19, Lond. 1652) and other similar works written about this
period.--_Ed._]
254 [How inconsistent is this maxim of Machiavel with the semblance even
of Christian integrity! Pascal, however, has supplied us with ample
proofs not only from the books of the Jesuits but from their public
Theses, that they hold it to be perfectly justifiable to calumniate
their enemies or to charge them with crimes of which they know them
to be innocent. He declares that this doctrine is so generally
received by them (si constante,) that should a man dare to oppose
it, he would be treated by them as a fool,--Les Provinciales tome
troisieme quinzieme lettre.--_Ed._]
255 [The philosophy of Aristotle was called architectonica
({~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}), _pertaining to building_, from {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} _a leader_,
and {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} an _artificer_), as if every kind of knowledge had been
rendered subservient to it.--_Ed._]
256 [That is, arts or sciences.--_Ed._]
257 [The Records of the Presbytery of Glasgow show, that this Fast was
appointed by the commission of the General Assembly. "The
commiss
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